All Cyprus was British until 1960. 99% of the island was made independent
as the Republic of Cyprus. The rest stayed British. These bases are not like
Guantanamo or Porkkala, in that the Cypriots have not leased them to the
UK. When the Brits want to leave they will give them to Cyprus (they can't
sell them to someone else)The bases are usually labelled UKSB: UK Sovereign
Base, or UK Sovereign Military base.

British Sovereign naval basis existed also in the Republic of Ireland for
some time after independence

There are two true enclaves and one coastal enclave with Dhekelia base.

4.

Cooch-Behar ex- and enclaves of India inside Bangla-Desh and of Bangla-Desh
inside India

claves

5.

The Sovereign Territory of the Hospitaler Order of the Knights of St John
(a territory with embassies but no actual land)

Are embassies genuine claves?

SMOM do have territories in Rome which is probably more headquarter than
embassy. You may say that is their territory. In their website, they do not
make claim to any territory, however.

6.

Reversing Falls in Saint John, New Brunswick

7.

Llivia

claves

8.

Melila and/or Ceuta, Spain (on N African coast)

There are other Plazas de Soberania, such as Penon de Velez de la Gomera,
Penon de Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas. The last two are collections of
three islets

claves

9.

Gibraltar

claves

10.

Any lake that has never had water in it in historic times

11.

The point on earth farthest from the center of the Earth, farther than the
top of Mount Everest (top of Chimborazo ?)

12.

lakes with significant variation in surface elevation

Lake Chad and Lake Eyre

the disappearance of Aral Sea,

13.

Andorra ('owned' by two countries)

14.

The exclave of Kentucky in a bend of the Mississippi

claves

15.

The part of the boundary of the Australian Capital Territory that follows
a railway

16.

The part of the Austria-Hungary border that follows a canal

17.

points where 3 or more time zones come together

http://www.cangeo.ca/SO98/geomap.htm

18.

The "Four Corners" point among the US States of Arizona, Utah, Colorado,
and New Mexico

19.

Wyoming or Colorado (simplest geometric outline)

shapes

20.

South Tyrol (a German-speaking part of Italy -- and why it exists)

21.

Limone (town in N. Italy all of whose inhabitants think 'Limone' means 'lemons'
(so there are small lemons above every door); in fact it means 'limes' or
‘border’)

22.

The island in the Pacific which petitioned to have the international dateline
moved so they would be the first to celebrate the new millennium

Kwajalein, right?

23.

The indeterminate international boundaries of the Arabian peninsula

These create enclave within Madha Secondly, some maps show a Qatar, UAE
boundary and some not. Thirdly, the messy boundaries within UAE whch in some
cases cause condominiums.

24.

Aland (between Finland and Sweden)

25.

The exclave of the Australian Capital Territory on the NSW coast

claves

26.

The North Carolina 12th Congressional district.

gerrymander

27.

The Original Gerrymander

gerrymander

28.

The annual migration path for the "Mutton Bird" (Short-tailed Shearwater)

29.

Geographic objects outside geography:

Cuts of Meat

(Butchers’ Charts from different culinary cultures)

Regions of the brain

the middle, upper and lower femur (from atlas of surgical anatomy)

30.

maps of a fractal Quebec proposed by anglophone/native Canadian alliances
(Should we include current but non-existing geographic objects,)

31.

Mount Rushmore

32.

Wisconsin Map Cow

33.

Grand Canyon (world's largest hole?)

34.

The boundary between Nunavut and the Provinces around Hudson and James Bays
(follows the shore line)

But perhaps this is not true, perhaps the water of Hudson’s Bay is Federal
territory and only the islands are in Nunavut...

Interesting subcategory of this fact is Kilinek island which lies off the
coast of Newfoundland and Quebec. The Newfoundland side of the island stays
Newfoundland, but the Quebec side belongs to Nunavut.

35.

The Titanic and the iceberg which sunk it (the former is named but not a
geographic object, really; the latter is not named, but some would say that
it is a geographic object); we might list also a prominently moored museum
ship in some harbor somewhere

Some subterranean geographic objects (e.g. old part of Jerusalem under the
present part)?

38.

Sub-aqueous geographic objects? Tallest mountain under the pacific?

39.

Longest ridge?

40.

The Swiss Pass crossed by Hannibal with his elephants (example of a saddle-point)?

41.

Portmeiron: fake Italianate village in North Wales where
The Prisoner
was filmed

42.

The British Empire

43.

France (including non-Metropolitan bits in the Carribean etc.)

44.

Some volcano?

45.

Caprivi strip, the thin neck of Namibia that comes almost to Victoria Falls,
and 'almost' makes a four-country point. Namibia's quadripoint with Botswana,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe

46.

The Italian enclave of Campione d'Italia in Switzerland

claves

47.

Kosslyn's Island

48.

Middle Earth, as shown in the "Atlas of Middle Earth"

49.

All other extant exclaves at the level of sovereign political units that
are not listed above or below.

claves

50.

Guantanamo bay

51.

Büsingen (exclave of Germany inside Switzerland)

claves

52.

Channel Islands (toast to Your Majesty Duke of Normandy Our Queen"

53.

Vatican City

This is, as I understand it, three different, coincident geographic objects:

The Holy See (has ambassadors (nuncios), etc.)

The Vatican City (has a Mayor? takes care of the drains)

The Sovereign State (which signs postal treaties, etc.)

According to
Patti Lateranensi,Convenzioni e Accordi Successivi fra il
Vaticano e L'italia (Lateran Pacts, Treaty and Agreements between Vatican
and Italy) until December 1945 the only

formal agreement concerning State boundaries was the Lateran treaty (article
3). After 1945, other formalities concerned the extraterritoriality zones
(for example near Via della Conciliazione and near San Paolo Basilica.

After 1945 there was no formal agreement about

boundaries, especially after the building of the new

Papal Hall (1972) astride the Vatican territory and

the extraterritorial territory of the Sant'Uffizio.

54.

Monaco

55.

Nauru

56.

Tuvalu

57.

San Marino

No treaty exists about boundaries between Italy and San Marino. The land
border is the one used since the 15th century.

Other sites that are semi-exclaves or historic semi-exclaves are the Protestant
Cemetery in Macau, Russian radio station and War memorial in Berlin (mentioned
by Catudal) and Longwood farm in St Helena. Some of them may actually have
been true administrative exclave, though not sovereign ones.

Iceland, counted as part of Europe even though geographically it is much
nearer to North America

Denmark (including Greenland) as largest country in Europe

71.

Attu Island, counted as part of North America even though it is well into
the eastern Hemisphere

Attu and Kiska are only parts of America under foreign occupation WWII

72.

Gazankulu (former "independent homeland" now part of South Africa

Should mention all 10 of the homelands

73.

Panama Canal Zone

PCZ was not only a coastal territory of USA in Panama, but the city of Colon
within it was an exclave of Panama. To confuse the matter farher, there
was a coastal exclave of PCZ in Panama plus another exclave within the Colon
exclave.

74.

Panama itself (artificially separated from Colombia)

75.

Lesotho (largest enclave?)

claves

76.

The International Dateline

77.

The largest jog in the International Dateline

78.

The Prime Meridian

79.

A rock in Utrecht, about 1 cubic meter, which is chained to the ground on
one of the main streets in the center of town. (Mountains are rare in Holland,
this was the best they could do)

80.

Agua Caliente: one of many “checkerboard” shaped Indian reservation

81.

Ayer's Rock

82.

Nazca Lines, gigantic figures engraved on the Peruvian desert surface representing
fishes, spiders, geometric, antropomorphous and other hardly identifiable
figures that can only be seen from the air.

83.

Guano islands claimed by the USA:

Sec. 1411. Guano districts; claim by United States

Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on
any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other
government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and
takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island,
rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining
to the United States.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/unframed/48/1411.html

Isn't Kingman Reef with few square meters of territory odd? French also
have some tiny Islands administered by Reunion for some odd reason.

84.

The Pope's Enclave, southern France

http://www.provenceweb.fr/e/vaucluse.htm

claves

85.

an iceberg that was larger than Belgium

86.

And of course the neutral territory of Moresnet, at the Belgian/German/Dutch
tripoint, jointly run by Prussia and Belgium: 1815-1918.

The Akwesasne tribal lands, perhaps sovereign aboriginal territory, but
the reserve spans the border of the US and Canada, and also Ontario and
Quebec.

93.

The “D River” in Oregon is said to be the world’s shortest river, 121 feet
long. (USA Today, 20 Jul 2000)

94.

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

95.

The southernmost city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.

96.

World Sailing Speed Record Council, Around the World. To sail around The
World, a vessel must start from and return to the same point, must cross
all meridians of longitude and must cross the Equator. It may cross some
byt not all meridians more than once. The orthodromic track of the vessel
must be at least 21,600 nautical miles in length. In calculating this distacne
it is to be assumed that the vessel will sail aroudn Antartica in latitude
64 degrees south. A vessel starting in the Southern Hemisphere has to round
an island or other fixed point in the Northern Hemisphere that will satisfy
the minimum distance requirement.

97.

Borders between states usually run down the middle of water bodies. A special
case is the German-Luxemburg border in the rivers Sauer and Our. The bed and
banks stand in a condomium of the two states. This means that both states
have sovereignty over the whole rive.

Translated by BS from

http://www.mms-spiess.ch/Inhalt.htm

98.

Lake Constance, a black hole in the middle of Europe.

There is still no legally binding agreement as to where the boundaries lie
between Switzerland, Germany and Austria where these three countries meet
in Lake Constance. This means that these three countries do not have complete
boundaries. In the area of Lake Constance the countries just peter out.

While Switzerland holds the view that the border runs through the middle
of the Lake, Austria is of the opinion that the lake stands in condomium of
all the states on its banks. German holds no unambiguous opinion. Legal questions
pertaining to ship transport and fishing are regulated in separate treaties.

Here too disputes arise. One concerns a boat house which was moored in two
states, another concerns the rights to fish in the Bay of Bregenz. In relation
to the latter an Austrian family was of the opinion that it alone had the
right to fish in broad portions of the bay. This however was accepted neither
by the Austrian courts not by the organs and courts of the other states.

http://www.mms-spiess.ch/Inhalt.htm

99.

Shortest international boundary on an island (?)

http://www.image.dk/~jesniel/border/stmartin.htm

Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen <jesniel@image.dk>

"With an area of only 37 square miles, the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin
is the smallest land mass in the world to be divided between two governments."

http://www.st-maarten.com/home.html

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=48.995&lon=-100.21&size=s&s=25

shows 2 international islands smaller than st martin

The westerly of these is the smallest such island known while the easterly
may contain the shortest boundary

there is a third Canadian American one shared by Vermont and Quebec

amazingly there are 3 in scandinavia as well

So St Martin evidently ranks no better than 7th smallest international island
in the world

100.

Find Aachen, Germany in your atlas. Find the belgian town of Eupen, 10 miles
to the south. Now head east. Just across the border back in germany is Rotgen,
and 6 miles SE of that is Monschau. The 5 enclaves are along this border between
Rotgen and Monschau. If you have a good map it will show the rail line crossing
the border in several places. When the rail line goes into germany, it is
actually Belgian sovereign territory. Belgian 1:100 000 maps and larger scales
show it nicely. As the rail line is only used for freight, not passengers,
nowadays, no one really cares about it. I hope to go there in the next month.

claves

101.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/travel/practical/pt990110.html truly
international airport near Basel

102.

In the easternmost reach of the 49th parallel sector of the Canada-US boundary
there are at least 3 international tongues of land, one of them named Elm
Point, all protruding into United States territory from the Canadian headland
there just ESE of Middlebro, Manitoba

Travelling generally West to East we have

1 Point Roberts WA

2 name unknown MN

3 name unknown MN

4 elm point MN

& possibly another or others here just east of the above point

5 Northwest Angle MN

(may really be 2 separate projections)

6 St Regis Quebec (being the only Canadian example)

7 Alburg VT

8 Province Point VT

I have found two others which I didn't mention on BoundaryPoint since I
haven't found a map which spans the border. Thus I have no idea the two
places I found are tongues or borders. Also, I mentioned earlier on the list
of two piers which were artficially divided by Kuwait-Iraq boundary commission.
The area nearest to land is Kuwaiti but the end of the pier is Iraqi.

103.

city limits of Plains, Georgia, and Cole City, Georgia, are circles, as
are hundreds of other towns and cities in Georgia and adjacent states

shapes

there are many towns in Georgia and adjacent states whose boundaries are
complete circles.

104.

part of the boundary of Delaware is an arc of a circle

shapes

there are many towns in Georgia and adjacent states whose boundaries are
complete circles.

105.

The point of Lake Okeechobee where 5 counties meet

multipoint

106.

the goal lines of an American football field are unbounded and in principal
extend around the Earth

According to the BBC documentary series 'frontiers', both the book and TV
series, the island (Conference) is administered for 6 months by each country,
which does the gardening on it.

condominium

108.

The city of Paris (which is a departement in it's own right) owns the source
of the river Seine. It was bought in the 19th century. I wonder whether it's
only a question of property, or that this tiny spot is actually a part of
the departement Ville de Paris (used to be called 'Seine', which explains
the departemental number 75, alphabetically wedged in between Savoie (Haute)
and Seine-Maritime). In that case, it is yet another departemental enclave
in France (apart from the five Arif mentions on his web site). If not, it
is still a nice oddity. Does it ressort under the Parisian public gardens
service? A long trip for mowing the lawn.

http://www.canalplus.fr/html/ete97/bourgogne/st_germain.htm

109.

Jungholz, a part of Austria that touches the rest of Austria at exactly
one point and is otherwise completely surrponded by Germany. A pene-enclave?
There is also one international pene-enclave in Baarle

110.

Olympus Mons: the largest mountain in the Solar System rising 24 km (78,000
ft.) above the surrounding plain. Its base is more

than 500 km in diameter and is rimmed by a cliff 6 km (20,000 ft) high (right).